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3,055 first-year candidates were offered admission to UNC last Friday. That number includes the regular-decision applications, as well as the more than 2,400 early-action candidates whose decisions were initially deferred. More than 6,000 candidates were offered admission during the early-action period. Carolina received a total of 31,943 applications for enrollment this year, which marks the […]

14 UNC students from Orange County have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa – that nation’s oldest and most honored college honor society, according to the university. Helena Irene Archer, a senior with a health policy and management major and creative writing and French minors, daughter of Trevor Archer and Janet Archer of Chapel Hill. […]

The namesake of Saunders Hall, and other memorials on campus with controversial histories, was the topic of discussion at a UNC Board of Trustees Committee meeting on Wednesday. Hundreds of students, faculty members, and concerned residents gathered at the Rizzo Conference Center to discuss finding a resolution that recognizes the controversial history in North Carolina […]

Just more than 100 students and faculty gathered on a beautiful Monday evening for the first in a series of discussions entitled “Carolina Conversations.” After an initial address from Chancellor Folt, Student Body Vice President Kyle Villemain, and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Winston Crisp, the crowd broke down into smaller groups and had open […]

A noted author and environmentalist will hold a reading Tuesday night on the UNC Campus. Terry Tempest Williams is an author, environmentalist, and activist. She is also the 2015 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at UNC. Williams says, coming from the Western United States, North Carolina is a blast of nature. “From the mountains, to the piedmont, to […]

The Senior Associate Athletics Director, and Senior Woman Administrator, at UNC is retiring. The university announced that Dr. Beth Miller will be retiring on July 1. In a statement, Miller says, “I’ve been fortunate to be part of the University and the North Carolina athletic department for 40 years and it’s been a wonderful experience.” […]

The first in the series of discussions entitled “Carolina Conversations” will be held Monday evening. “Carolina Pulse: Race and Current Events” is scheduled to begin at 5 o’clock and run until 6:30 at the Aquarium Lounge of the FPG Student Union. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Winston Crisp says the university wants all of the […]

Former UNC football player Ryan Hoffman was flown to the university, on Tuesday, to undergo further evaluation. Carolina sent a private plane to bring Hoffman back from Florida. He will reportedly be going into university outpatient care. A New York Times story earlier this month brought to light that Hoffman was homeless in Lakeland, Florida. The […]

UNC settled the lawsuit with learning specialist Mary Willingham for $335,000, WCHL has confirmed. The figure was first reported by the Raleigh News & Observer. The lawsuit settlement was reached in late February. Rick White, UNC Associate Vice Chancellor for Communications and Public Affairs, provided the following statement upon reaching the settlement: “The University’s settlement […]

UNC graduate programs are very well represented in the 2016 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” from the US News and World Report. The new honors for UNC graduate programs includes the school of medicine, public health, nursing, business, law, and education – with specialty areas recognized within each department. UNC Provost James Dean says […]

Many UNC faculty members, and citizen across the state, have expressed concern recently with the decision from the Board of Governors to close three centers across the UNC System. UNC Faculty Chair Doctor Bruce Cairns tells WCHL’s Blake Hodge that the university’s work on poverty will continue despite the decision to close the Center on […]

Dr. Jan Boxill, who has been one of the key figures in the academic scandal at UNC, resigned her position just before her appeal of her firing was to be heard by a faculty committee. Rick White, Associate Vice Chancellor for Communications and Public Affairs at UNC, says that process came to a halt with […]

The University of North Carolina has been under an intense microscope in recent years, dealing with questions from an academic scandal that spanned nearly two decades. The issue of public records being filled by UNC has been a topic of many media stories in recent years, including whether the university was releasing all of the […]

The graduate program at UNC was put under the microscope in an article in Sunday’s News and Observer after revelations were made that special permissions were given for athletes at Carolina. WCHL’s Blake Hodge spoke with UNC Faculty Chair Doctor Bruce Cairns to find out if he was aware of these incidents prior to this […]

UNC Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser is calling on residents of North Carolina to stand up for the state’s universities. Anxiety has fallen on much of the UNC campus following decisions recently made by the University System Board of Governors, from the removal of Tom Ross as President of the UNC System to the closure of […]

Thursday marks the anniversary of a day that many in the Chapel Hill community will never forget. March 5, 2008, Eve Carson was shot and killed. At a press conference, then Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran made the announcement. “The victim has been identified as Eve Carson, age 22, a UNC Senior and current […]

The decision of the UNC Board of Governors to close three centers across the UNC System has drawn a lot of attention over the last few days. The Center for Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at UNC was voted to be shut down in the next twelve months by the BOG. But another center on UNC’s […]

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